The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-05-20

plain. never since Henry Hudson in The EN-
ploy of the Dutch East India Company dis
covered our bay and three days after sailed up
our greatriver which Was named after him as
the Hudson, never since New Amsterdam
became New York, has this, our beloved State,
been in such peril as in the last two weeks
because of the Ives Pool bill. 1t means the
damnation of public morals. 1t means the
subsection of a hundred thousand boys and
young men to Il TEMPTATION which many OF
them are not strong enough TO resist. II
means the boring OF a hole in the money
drawers of merchants from which the dollars
shall be filched for the purchase OF pool
tickets. 1t means an invitation to the bad
people of other cities to come here with their
scoundrelism and their libertinism and their
harlotry and their beastliness and make
Brooklyn q SaIatoga, the capital of an
the infanly. There are three legislative
bills which belong to the same fam
lily. Two of them have already been before
our Legislature, namely, the attempt to regu-
late the rum traffic by fixing q high price for
the privilege of selling intoxieants, ana the
attempt 10 regulate gambling by confning il
10 n certain number Of DAYS. But there Is
another bill 80 closely allied to these 1 warrant
1t i now in the coat pocket OF some member
| ofThe Legislature, q bill to regulate the social
evil, or the crime of impurity, by taxing it and
permitting it under certain conditions. All
three on the same principle. which i TINS;
Wickedncss is q necessary evil, and as 1t can
not be extirpated we must regulate it. First
rate theory that for Sodom and GomoIrah and
the cities of the PLAIN over winch Inc beaa
sea stands, lest somehow hey might crawl up
out of their pestiterous and neutrality-suspicious.
but it will not do for orr modern cities in this
the Nineteenth Century of Christian Iffadlt-
ton. Gentlemen. keep your hands Off the Ten
Commandments. They are the foundation OF
all good law and they have not bent the mil
lioneth part of an inch since they were first
promulgated and they Will not bend the mil
lioneth part of an inch between now ana the
time when the last thimbleIuf OF the Nof1i ;
ashes have been blown OF into the INFINITE sol
itudes.
Saturday morning we walked on Column
bia Heights. Saw the home of the late
Henry Ward Beecher, whose life marked
an epoch in the history of the world.
Probably no man of the nineteenth CEN
fury did more to mould political, moral
and religious sentiment. In him was COM
bined the highest type Of the preacher,
statesman, philosopher, scientist, orator
and poet. Tire influences he exerted on
his age will roll on. like ocean waves IN
Overwhelming circles, until they break on
the shores OF eternity. Took cable car
and crossed over the Suspension Bridge to
New York City. This bridge is suspended
from two immense abutnlents on either
side OF the East river, and it may well be
called one Of the modern wonders. On 1t
is a cable road, two separate driYeways
and a footway. This bridge Is the mar
rage bands between the two cities. 0n it
New York City and Brooklyn keep per-
petual festival of the union.
Took the elevated railway for Central
| Park. Here the indOlent and voluptuous,
and the eyer-hurrying and over-worked
| Gothamites find recreation and repose.
| Nature and art have here combined TO
make an earthly Eden. Rock and dell,
trees and s%hrubbery, flower gardens and
playing fountains beautify the scene. Wis
tied the Geological Gardens. Most of the
animals are in a sorry plight. Elephants
and eamels, musk-ox and deer have Worn
| out their winter clothes which hang from
them in shreds, giving them the appear
ance of brute trampS.
Next visited the Obelisk, which, to us,
has a peculiar interest as a relic OF the
lonp-apo. When we remembered this
shaft once stood before the temple of On,
in which the father of Asenath. the wife OF
Joseph. oficiated as priest, we felt to say:
Old Obelisk! tell us something of the nup-
tial rites. How Joseph looked in robes of
| State. and Asenath in jeweled ornaments
and nuptial gown of fine linen and threads
of gold. Tell us of the wedding ring, the
/ stringed music, the burning incense, and
/ the innovation of the blessings of Ra. Was
marriage then a divine union, a twain
one flesh" or a matter of convenience and
of selfish gain?
1t is a matter of regret that his mono
18th is beginning to crumble away. Al
ready the hieroglyphics on the east ana
| south sides are almost obliterated. We
suggest that it be moved westward, away
from the action OF the sea air, that it may
be preserved to the centuries to come.
Next visited the Museum of Natural
| History. Here is exhibited specimens OF
every kind of wood grown in North Amer
lea. Also stuffed specimens OF every
known animal and bird. Also preserved
| specimens of every known i~nhabitant OF
tile deep, and of every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth. VIC next
visit the Metropolitan Museum Of Art.
Here is wonder herself. Written on rock
and marble, clay and brass, gold and pre-
eious stones is the history OF three hon
sand wears. Among the thousands of GU
riosities we see stone gods from ancient
Mexico. iewelry from buried Pompeii,
sculpture from Thebes, glassware from
the tombs of Cypress, drinking vessels from
ancient Babylon, terra-cotta from burned
Troy, ~sareophagi from ancient Greece, IN
fact representations of ornament and OF
utility OF all nations of all ages. Here
is a petrified body ef an ancient cave
dwellar of North America, unknown and
without a history. To him this world IN
which he lived and the starry hosts above
him were dark, inexplicable mysteries. NO
home. no temple, no thesis, he lived q
child ofnature. And here is IN embalmed
mummy from al old tomb OF ancient
Egypt, lincn-snronded, sesined ana smoke
dried. Mummy, tell us something q Thy
history, name and station. About Men,
non, whose stony lips called thee To devo-
ton at the risingof the sun. or kafnac and
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